Lesson Two – Christmas Dinner
This numeracy teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to select and calculate the cost of buying a range of different items of food for a family Christmas dinner including vegetables and cooked meats.
The class can practise using concrete objects and diagrams to model counting on when adding pairs of numbers to ten to calculate the matching prices.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to select and calculate the cost of buying a range of different items of food for a family Christmas dinner
Activities in this teaching pack include a template to select and calculate the cost of a range of different items of food for a family Christmas dinner and a worksheet to record the numbers of pennies that can match different money amounts for items of food.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to calculate the cost of buying a range of different items of food for Christmas dinner.
This lesson is part of a numeracy scheme of work to get the children to solve a range of money problems about different things that families might need to buy to celebrate Christmas by adding money amounts within twenty. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.
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